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...Begleiter represents a different sort of recreational player that is taking to the game in increasing numbers; players with a mathematical mind, focus, drive and a keen sense of risk honed in professions like academia, the law or finance. These hobbyist bounty hunters were bound to start showing up at the Main Event, where the game's popularity has pushed up the stakes nine-fold over the past decade - a period that has seen folks with a knack for numbers, like math whiz Chris Ferguson and accountant Chris Moneymaker, claim mountainous paydays...
...casual sex is normal, why do culture and academia need to remind us? Better yet, why do some radical feminists save their virginity? Why do at least 42 percent of Harvard students not have sex? Some declare that we just can’t get any sex, but if a larger percentage of the student body wanted the hookup culture, odds would be pretty good that more students could find...
...that work’s accessibility. “To a certain extent it kind of demonstrates the academic mindset, in that the only other people who have read the book contributed to it,” Kaufman says. “This happens all the time in academia. It’s just that they chose a different kind of academic, so some of the contributors are out as public intellectuals and public figures...
Government Professor Peter A. Hall recalled that before entering the world of academia, Beer was a decorated veteran of World War II. Beer landed at Normandy five days after D-Day and was awarded a Bronze Star for fighting in close proximity to enemy lines...
...general, media reactions to Sandel’s television series have been positive. Most laud it for supporting freedom of information and combating the exclusivity of the Ivy League education; some even go so far as to hail such open access as the end of Old Academia...